Ryan Packer
Ryan Packer has been writing for The Urbanist since 2015, and currently reports full-time as Contributing Editor. Their beats are transportation, land use, public space, traffic safety, and obscure community meetings. Packer has also reported for other regional outlets including BikePortland, Seattle Met, and PubliCola. They live in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle.
In June, I wrote about how the One Center City stakeholder group was heading toward a downtown where the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel could...
Seattle and Portland have twin stories of fighting urban freeway expansion in the middle of the 20th century. With the defeat of the R.H....
The Seattle Department Transportation is moving forward on making significant changes to NE 65th Street in North Seattle after asking for feedback on several...
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is moving ahead quickly with a plan to install protected bike lanes (PBLs) on Pike and Pine Streets...
Last week, Chinese bikeshare company Ofo became the third private bikeshare operator to be given the green light to join the pilot phase of...
The City of Seattle, via the Department of Neighborhoods, has just completed its first citywide experiment with participatory budgeting. In March, the department solicited...
This past Saturday morning, The Urbanist held a walking tour focusing on the central topics around transportation and the public realm involved in the...
This month Pike Place Market turns 110 years old. This archival footage shows some rare shots of the market during its second decade, when...